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To: sandintoes who wrote (4232)	6/17/2007 3:26:46 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 4641

Bush Going Down With the Ship Michael Reagan Friday, June 15, 2007 Reprint Information Giuliani: U.S. Needs High-Tech Fence House Passes Homeland Security Bill Al D'Amato Likes Fred Thompson-Giuliani Ticket Billy Graham: Wife Ruth Beautiful in Death Obama: Drug Co. Lobbyists Hurting Seniors The S.S. GOP is sinking fast, and it looks like Skipper Bush is going down with his ship. That's only fair — after all, he's the one who torpedoed his own ship with the immigration-reform-bill warhead. Not fair is the fact that he's taking his party down with him. I can understand his stubbornness in sticking with this insane program that doesn't do a damned thing to plug the leaking borders that are allowing the United States to be flooded with all manner and shapes of illegal aliens, some of them terrorists who want to kill large numbers of Americans — he really has nothing to lose. In less than 18 months he'll be history — one of those curiosities who at one moment wielded the vast powers of the presidency and the next found themselves with all the other John Q. Citizens. That's not true of the senators who stand on the bridge with him as the water rises up toward the quarter deck where they can either jump into the life boats and survive, or go down with the ship. I'm amazed at how many of them appear to be choosing a watery grave. After all, it should be more than obvious that standing firm behind this monstrosity of a bill carries with it the death penalty – it's just plain suicidal. He might not yet fully realize it, but Sen. John McCain has suddenly gone from being a serious candidate for the presidency to that of being a politician with no political future at all. And I can't imagine how Sen. Lindsay Graham could ever imagine that his strong advocacy of a bill that in the blink of an eye turns lawbreakers, some of the most serious kind, into instant legal immigrants could be helpful to his political future. Ditto John Kyl and the others. newsmax.com

To: sandintoes who wrote (4232)	6/17/2007 3:27:59 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 4641

Stand Behind Your Candidate Michael Reagan Friday, June 8, 2007 Reprint Information Giuliani: U.S. Needs High-Tech Fence House Passes Homeland Security Bill Al D'Amato Likes Fred Thompson-Giuliani Ticket Billy Graham: Wife Ruth Beautiful in Death Obama: Drug Co. Lobbyists Hurting Seniors Conservative Republicans have suddenly discovered that while they weren't looking the Rockefeller wing of the GOP they thought they'd crushed in the Goldwater and Reagan revolutions is still very much alive and powerful. That has been never more evident than it is now in the White House campaign for an immigration reform bill that seems to elevate illegal immigration to the exalted status of a civil rights movement. Conservatives are stunned when the see the president they have staunchly supported through thick and through thin not only surrender to the liberal internationalist crowd, but get out in front and lead them in what amounts to an assault on America's national sovereignty. Peggy Noonan was right on when she wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal that ". . . conservatives and Republicans must recognize . . . that the White House has broken with them." Moreover, Noonan recognizes that, as she wrote, "the people in the administration don't even much like the [conservative] base . . . This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place." Bush supporters, she wrote, "have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! newsmax.com

To: sandintoes who wrote (4232)	6/17/2007 3:29:17 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 4641

The Real Ronald Reagan Michael Reagan Friday, May 25, 2007 Reprint Information Giuliani: U.S. Needs High-Tech Fence House Passes Homeland Security Bill Al D'Amato Likes Fred Thompson-Giuliani Ticket Billy Graham: Wife Ruth Beautiful in Death Obama: Drug Co. Lobbyists Hurting Seniors Once again, the left-leaning mainstream media have egg all over their faces thanks to the voice of my dad, Ronald Reagan, speaking from his eternal resting place. Over the past week, since "The Reagan Diaries" was released, the media have focused on everything except what to me is the most significant result of their publication: the self-portrayal that once again proves the lie in the false picture of him the media long sought to draw — that of a less-than-intelligent former actor scarcely smart enough to remember his lines much less govern America. The Media Research Council's Brent Bozell once accurately described the media's attitude during the Reagan administration as "fiercely hostile and often indistinguishable from the Democratic talking points of the day." Much of that hostility expressed itself by suggesting that my dad was the "amiable dunce" a biographer inexcusably called him to the delight of the liberal media elite, which could never accept the idea that a former Hollywood actor was in the end a lot smarter and had far more common sense than any of them up there in their ivory towers. In his diaries, however, my dad revealed himself to be the man I knew, and anything but an "amiable dunce." Open the pages of his diaries, brilliantly edited by the slightly liberal Douglas Brinkley — whose honesty and decency allowed him to see the real Ronald Reagan and not the parody created by the media — and you encounter the extraordinary human being divine providence gave this nation at a time when such a man was needed at the helm. The picture my dad paints of himself as he muses upon the events of each of his days in the White House is that of a thoughtful man always willing to speak well of others (including his opponents), always reluctant to criticize his foes, and fiercely determined to crush the evil he recognized in the face of international communism and to restore America to the greatness that had diminished since his youth. The man we encounter, brilliant and keenly perceptive as he showed himself to be in the pages of his daily journal, was a simple uncomplicated human being armed with a rock-hard faith in God and an unshakable belief in the inherent goodness of his fellow man. And he spent a lifetime seeking to find the light of that goodness in everyone he encountered, including the very man who ruled the empire he called evil. newsmax.com

To: sandintoes who wrote (4232)	6/17/2007 3:31:46 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 4641

'Gimme' Mentality of the Left Michael Reagan Friday, June 1, 2007 Reprint Information Giuliani: U.S. Needs High-Tech Fence House Passes Homeland Security Bill Al D'Amato Likes Fred Thompson-Giuliani Ticket Billy Graham: Wife Ruth Beautiful in Death Obama: Drug Co. Lobbyists Hurting Seniors There's a little bit of the "gimme" mentality in all of us, and it's that unattractive part of our psyche that demagogic politicians take aim at when trying to win our support. The Democratic left wing (is there any other wing of that party nowadays?) is out in full hue and cry, hoping to evoke in the masses a deep yearning for whatever goodies the government can shell out. They think we all have our hands out and they strive to pledge to fill them with new and better government giveaways. It's an interesting spectacle to watch as the various Democratic presidential wannabes try to move further left than any of their rivals in an effort to out-promise each other. Last week when Obama pitched his socialized medicine program, Hillary slipped around his left side with her Marxist solutions for every imaginable problem known to humankind (oops, I almost said the M word — mankind). As the battle rages, we can expect to see the candidates break new ground as the travel farther and father left into territory even no Marxist has ever before trod. By the time the primaries roll around they'll make Joe Stalin look like a right-wing conservative — and Santa Claus look like Ebenezer Scrooge. It's something-for-everyone time on the Democrat campaign trail, and no longer being content with the old party lines about "saving" Social Security from the robber baron Republicans who allegedly want to strip Grandma of her monthly Social Security check and throw her to the wolves, they are hot on the trail to locate new and better ways to buy the voters' votes with their own tax dollars. Having already whetted the voters' appetites with every kind of giveaway program they could dream up, they now find themselves forced to outdo each other in the grandiosity of their proposals. And there are lots of opportunities to devise new and exciting handouts available in that vast period between cradle and grave through which we all pass. This pandermania epidemic is the result of the growing perception among a large segment of younger Americans that they are somehow entitled to all sorts of privileges, including the largesse of the federal Treasury. And the Democrats are only too eager to oblige their cupidity. Take little miss Lindsay Lohan as the extreme archetype of the "me" generation. Like hordes of Hollywood brats she has shown herself to be utterly convinced that the laws and restrictions and customs to which most adult Americans are subject do not apply to her. Like Jerry Seinfeld, she is the master of her own domain, which appears to include everything and everybody in the whole wide world. She and Paris Hilton, among other celebrated alcohol- and drug-sodden doxies, are of course extreme examples. But they are members of a generation that believes it is entitled to whatever their little hearts desire, including exemption from serving their country in wartime, government-paid college tuition, and a form of without-consequence sexual license which would shame even the worst libertines of ancient Rome. Enter stage left one Hillary Clinton, this era's most accomplished snake oil salesperson. To her the whole world is a village and she wants to be the mayor, ever anxious to see to it that the citizens of her global town are supplied with everything they could possibly desire, including round-the-clock child care — children being the responsibility of the mob, not their parents. newsmax.com

To: sandintoes who wrote (4232)	6/17/2007 3:34:26 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 4641

Friday, June 15, 2007 2:26 p.m. EDT Obama: Men Should 'Stop Acting Like Boys' Reprint Information Giuliani: U.S. Needs High-Tech Fence House Passes Homeland Security Bill Al D'Amato Likes Fred Thompson-Giuliani Ticket Billy Graham: Wife Ruth Beautiful in Death Obama: Drug Co. Lobbyists Hurting Seniors Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday that fathers have to share the responsibility for raising children and caring for families because their role doesn't end at conception. Days before Father's Day, the first-term Illinois senator and father of two daughters delivered his life message as well as an assessment of what government needs to do in remarks at a Baptist church. "What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise a child," Obama said. In his prepared text, Obama said: Men need to "stop acting like boys - who need to realize that responsibility does not end at conception" newsmax.com